Congressman Francis Carr, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts.
Carr was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth United States Congress (1815–1817), the second person from Bangor to occupy that office (following his father).
While traveling with his family on a steamboat, his 9-year-old daughter Mary fell overboard just below Louisville, Kentucky, and Carr entered the water in a failed attempt to save her.
Neither of their bodies were ever recovered, though a memorial to Carr was erected at Bangor's Mount Hope Cemetery.
[1] Carr was married to Betsey Stelle Jarvis, who migrated to Illinois along with two brothers following the tragedy on the river.